Click bait, the article is written about a median of 500 sampled rivers and lakes in the US. Those could be anything (such as one of numerous superfund site runoff waterways). If you fish, check your local state fish and wildlife department for the lake or river you fish; they post contamination risk per waterway.
It’s true that virtually all are contaminated to some degree, but that may be quite a low risk, and is certainly not “like drinking contaminated water for a month.”
My dad works in the Molecular Foundry division at LBNL / Lawrence Berkeley Labs (Dept of Energy and UC Berkeley), and loves it. He started there 40 years ago working in electron microscopy and oversaw the transition to digital imaging (you’d be surprised how much code they write). Good work life balance (he comes home for lunch everyday), a pension (rare these days!). His favorite part of the job is the revolving door of very smart people using/visiting the lab and getting to interact with so many ambitious (and not yet jaded) younger grad students from UC Berkeley.
I am 99% sure I know him - shares your same first initial? Tell him hello from me (TC Pekin), I always liked talking to him during some down time, and the feeling was mutual. As a grad student I always liked talking to him and hearing about all the history and his time at NCEM!
Maybe it’s time to end variable pay and tipping in the US. It’s ridiculous that restaurant owners can pay waiters less than minimum wage and assume that tips will make the difference in salary (saying nothing of tip theft).
The minimum wage for waiters where I live in the US is $15.75/hour before tips. That’s the minimum, most decent waiters make significantly more. They tried to replace tipping with a 20% service charge here and it was the workers that rejected it, because they made less money than with tipping. Your model of how this world works is overly simplistic.
While variability may be stressful and I wouldn’t consider the lifestyle to be particularly healthy, many waiters consider it a feature associated with having flexible hours to do other things. If they want more hours, competent waiters can almost always pick up as many as they want and it has been a sellers market for waitstaff labor here for as long as I can remember.
Even illegal migrant workers made much more than minimum wage when I lived in rural flyover areas. A chronic labor shortage will do that.
Single family home asking price is dropping (seems to be around 2019 asking prices), however mortgage costs are increasing faster (due to the Fed increasing rates to combat inflation). Renting is generally more affordable than single family home asking price + mortgage interest.
You can buy all cash (if you can afford it), but it’s still not really a great deal. Investment companies buying up residential real estate on ultra low mortgage rates artificially inflated the price). Companies and individuals who bought at high prices don’t want to sell at a loss, and many have fixed low mortgage interest rates.
It’s currently a standoff between those who want to sell and those who want to buy but can’t afford it. The result is an uptick in rentals and a weak housing market (low volume of sales). Assuming mortgage interest rates continue to climb, the asking prices will continue to fall as owners try to exit the market (hence you buying 30% under asking).
In practice it has felt more collaborative and inclusive. I’m not / don’t work with OP (early stage startup also, < 5 engineers), but our team has been using only Discord for the last few weeks (using only 1 eng room, not 1 room per person like OP).
This is definitely a killer feature on Discord for remote working. Being able to see who is in a room, join ad hoc, and work along side them has greatly reduced communication friction, and I’ve grown to love using (basically only) Discord over Slack + Calendar + Zoom/Meet to manage team communications.
I can attest to having a barking dog being an excellent deterrent. One night about a year ago, somebody was snooping around our backyard (we saw them on the security camera), one sharp bark (from the little dog no less, our bigger dog isn’t much of a barker) sent the snooper running.
I’ve long thought that this could / should be a simple home security system. Glad to see somebody did it and that it worked for them!
Bummer, I’ve been a fan of Brother in the past. Owned two monochrome laser printers that have been great over 10 years of service with not a single paper jam.
Indeed, I had seen so many good things said about Brother on Hacker News that I recently got an MFC-L2750DW for my home office that I am looking to swap for a MFC-L3770CDW as for some blasted reason Brother decided to get rid of printing and scanning from/to USB storage devices for the MFC-L2750DW. Having read this now on Hacker News, I am at a loss and tempted to dump Brother altogether.
Is there any reasonable alternative out there if you want:
I'm in the same boat. I was a big fan after many years happily using a monochrome HL-5250DN networked laser printer. It was just great: the printer was cheap, it printed well and fast, the cartridges were dirt cheap and lasted forever (1 cartridge was like 7000 pages).
Now I have one of their color laser printer which is OK but it's slow, you can't print that much with it before having to change one or the other cartridge and the OEM ink is terribly expensive.
If they now prevent from using third party ink like this, I'm officially out.
I agree and recommend them to everyone. That said, their monochrome lasers also prevent non-OEM toners from working without an opaque sequence of key presses. Maybe this is normal for printers but it was non-obvious for me.
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If your Brother HL-2130 does not reset properly after putting in a new cartridge, and is still showing a 'toner low' or 'toner empty' message, it is possible to manually reset the printer:
Ensure the printer is turned off.
Open the printer front cover.
Hold the Go button while turning the printer on.
When the Toner, Drum, and Error LEDs are on and the Ready LED is off, release the GO button. All of the LEDs will turn off.
Press the Go button two (2) times. The Toner, Drum, and Error LEDs will turn on.
Press the Go button six (6) times.
The Error LED should now be flashing, close the front cover.
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It’s true that virtually all are contaminated to some degree, but that may be quite a low risk, and is certainly not “like drinking contaminated water for a month.”